Talk:William Primrose

His Australian sojourn and the Wollongong connection
I don’t know much about this, except that apparently he came to live here for a time, specifically in Wollongong, of all places. He also apparently taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. But we need more details – dates, etc. And why such (as far as the musical world is concerned, anyway) an out-of-the way place as Wollongong? Here are some sources -


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JackofOz (talk) 02:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Born 1904, not 1903
For general info (no change required):

A birth year of 1903 is sometimes encountered in the literature, but it seems 1904 is correct. His centenary was celebrated in 2004 at the at the XXXII International Viola Congress in Minneapolis. -- JackofOz (talk) 16:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Citing information
I have gone through the article and updated/added sources and citations. However, I can't find the source for the following paragraphs:

In 1946, he was the soloist in the first recording of Berlioz's Harold in Italy. In 1944, he had commissioned a viola concerto from Béla Bartók. This was left incomplete at Bartók's death in 1945, and had to wait four years for its completion by Tibor Serly. Primrose was the soloist in the world premiere performance of the concerto, on 2 December 1949. In 1950, Benjamin Britten wrote for him Lachrymae based on the song by Dowland.[8]

Primrose was known for his tremendous technique. When he performed Paganini's violin caprices on viola, Mischa Elman is said to have exclaimed, "It must be easier on viola!" Primrose wrote many transcriptions and arrangements for viola, often technically dazzling, including "La Campanella" (from Paganini's second violin concerto) and the famous Nocturne from Borodin's second string quartet, the latter "out of jealousy" for the cello's long melodic lines.

Please add the source to the page if you can find it. Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 15:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Removed Sources
There are a number of links in sources that don't work anymore. I tried to find most of them, but some of them I just can't find. I replaced some of the information from said sources with other sources that were already in the article.

I also removed Jerry Epstein as a student because I couldn't find a source to prove that.

I removed these sources:

(although the information found here was also in another source) If anyone can find them that would be great so we can include it in the article again! Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 16:15, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Some of these links have been archived:


 * "The Backyard Stories" has an archived link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20121106075829/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1868052.htm
 * The Cozio site: https://web.archive.org/web/20110521224339/http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=3489 and https://web.archive.org/web/20101023192504/http://cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2314

To find out if a website is archived, go to archive.org and put the URL in the search box there. If the site has archives, it will show you what days the "snapshots" were taken. If the link has an access date, look at a snapshot from around the time it was accessed and it should have the same information. It won't work with every dead link but it's worth checking.

Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

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